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Don’t say we didn’t tell you this could happen. It may not have been a Freaky Friday on Wall Street, but it sure was fun.  Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOWI:DJI) set new record highs and Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI) led all stocks as the most active by a long-shot. Let’s […]

As I sit down to begin this article, Friday is only and hour and a quarter away in London. A few short hours later, it will be business as usual, then off for the weekend. I would suggest that the occasional glance be given to Wall Street during the day, and after the LSE closes. […]

Anglo Asian Mining plc, the AIM listed gold producer in Azerbaijan, has announced final audited results for the year ended 31 December 2013 (‘FY 2013’). Overview: · Steady production performance at flagship Gedabek gold-copper-silver mine in Azerbaijan in FY 2013 · Total gold production of 52,068 ounces (2012: 50,215 ounces) · Gold sales of 46,076 […]

Options three new tenements surrounding the Los Cisnes Gold-Silver Project, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Mariana Resources Ltd, the AIM quoted exploration and development company focused in Peru and southern Argentina, announces that it has optioned three new strategic tenements abutting and adjoining its 100% owned Los Cisnes Project in the eastern Deseado Massif, a prolific […]

After writing yesterday about the S&P 500 reaching new heights, I was prepared to follow up today with a similar story. However, as I usually caution, what goes up must come down. Except that with the indexes it’s more like a kid blowing up a balloon. They get excited as it gets bigger and bigger, […]

Rock samples return DSO iron grades at Mebaga Iron Ore Project in Gabon Ferrex plc, an AIM quoted iron ore and manganese development company focused in Africa, has said that high iron values have been returned from rock samples collected as part of the mapping programme in February 2014 to increase the mineralised area at […]

Phizer (NYSE:PFE) has officially withdrawn it’s £69 billion offer to acquire British pharmaceutical giant, AstaZeneca (LSE:AZN). According to a statement from Pfizer on 26 May, the deal has been withdrawn and, therefore, will not happen at any time in the near future, if ever. The text of Pfizer’s announcement read: On 18 May 2014, Pfizer announced […]

The Saga Group (LSE:SAGA) floated it’s IPO on the London Exchange today. Saga’s share price closed at the same price it was offered: 185.00 pence, after a short period spent at 189.00. As usual, there are at least two side to the story. The plot of one is that it was a successful IPO, raising £550 […]

In partnership with Northcote Energy North American Petroleum, a company focussed on developing its interests in proven US onshore oil and gas formations, notes that Northcote Energy Ltd (AIM:NCT) , its partner and operator of the 1,520 gross acre Zink Ranch Project in Oklahoma, has today announced that gas production from four wells recently recompleted […]

Second Off-take Agreement to Supply Crude Palm Oil from 60 t/hr extraction Mill in Côte d’Ivoire DekelOil Public Limited, operator and 51% owner of an established vertically integrated palm oil project in Côte d’Ivoire, has announced the commencement of sales of Crude Palm Oil produced from its 60 t/hr extraction Mill to Adam-Afrique, a local […]